February 2012
3 posts
Writing.com - First Impressions
Writing.com has been around since 2000 and its age certainly shows. However, big things sometimes come in outdated packages, right? There is no reason to be biased against a site because of how it looks. The only reason I mention it is because of the overwhelming amount of information that is available on the site feels like exactly that - overwhelming.
Besides, let’s not forget the value...
Writing Resources
Over the course of the next few weeks I will be joining a bunch of different online writing sites to figure out which is the best and has the most active community.
Here is the list so far:
1) http://www.writing.com/
“Writing.Com, thepremieronline community for writers of all interests and skill levels, has been going strong since 2000. We provide an extremely creative environment for...
Fire
Prometheus under my thumb. It turns out he’s nothing more than friction and liquefied gas, worth less than a dollar. Woe, Greeks lament. At least you still have the Olympics, you perverts.
January 2012
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Sleet
Sleet I walked through the woods during a rain of sleet. I heard the song of the pelted dying leaves.
The woods sang, and I sang too, though silently - a lonely, wandering tune. The leaves the chorus, my audience the moon.
My head bent like the boughs - the eaves whose shadows planked the path before my feet.
Politics
Not contemporary politics yet, but related all the same.
I just started a book for class called Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire.
The first three sentences really stirred up whatever is floating around in my head.
I haven’t nearly finished the book so rather than try and write about it I’ll just share those first three sentences.
”A civilization that proves...
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The House of Leaves
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
If you don’t like reading, or if you’re attention span is better suited for Youtube videos, then Mark Z. Danielewski is correct when he writes ”This is not for you.”
However, if you do like reading, and you think you can tackle the task of reading 3 interweaving story lines at once through a novel that appears at first glance to...
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The Writing Life
The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard.
I really enjoy reading this book. And I mean reading because this isn’t a book you read cover to cover just once. In fact, it isn’t like any other writing book I’ve ever read. There is no step by step process, no hints and tips - just a little over a hundred pages of wonderful writing about writing. I can open this book up to any page and,...
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Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
I am a Hunter S. Thompson fan. The previous sentence is an example of severe understatement.
If Hunter were alive today, I would not be in college, I would be living in a tent on the outskirts of his property. Now the previous sentence is factual and accurate, and also an example of some young upstart thinking that he is on a first name basis with a Great man just because he’s read all of...
A Man's Got to Write Some Poetry from Time to Time
Although I like poetry. But a poem, especially a love poem, is like a red head - it’s either very sexy… or very not. It’s a binary scale and there is a very thin line between 1 and 0. Here are two poems I like because 1) they’re not about love, and 2) they’re not about love. The first one is about Light, and the second is about an Ashtray.
Light
I feel light.
Not...
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Rambling Man
Write about a time when someone wasn’t there for you, she says. Like its that easy. I don’t like these games. My mind always comes up blank.
There are a plethora of different theories about what the future will be like, but I can literally tell you: just like today, but some numbers on your calendar will change. But that’s using the snarky, “technical” definition that says the future is any time...
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Books
Lying on the desk is a rectangular portal. Its size bears no relation to its weight. Open its front doors and you’ll find only more, one after another in a mesmerizing parade until you open the final door and find yourself right back where you started, but not quite.
Each one offers a different journey.
Enter one, and you might realize you are actually a highly trained government assassin with...
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The Sage Wisdom of the Elders
“You will never wear corduroys.”
“Why, dad?”
“Because you will be burnt.”
Out of all the countless pieces of advice my father gave me, this bit has outlasted all the rest. I must have been given more; little flashes of the wisdom and insight that are collected and preserved over however many years one is allotted in life. For whatever reason, I have managed to remember this specifically. The...
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Escapeboarding
So what is this? Where am I? It doesn’t matter. Just move.
The trees were glowing and shedding, shaking off their blushing leaves and bearing their naked skeletons to the light of a sun that seemed to care less each day. I drifted over their discarded, crackling ornaments that lay scattered over the sidewalks and roads that stretched between the buildings and parking lots, cutting through the...
You have landed
in the middle of an Alpaca Fracas. All sorts of things will be happening. They might be interesting things, or exciting things, horrible, terrible, wonderful, glorious things. You’ll just have to find out for yourself.
The Short Short Story: Today is a literal deluge of STUFF.
The Short Story: I am Pat McGee. I am consolidating all of my other blogs and this will be the last one...